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explored and mapped the coastline and Port Hacking estuary in 1796 and the southernmost point of Cronulla is named Bass and Flinders Point, in their honour. Thomas Holt (1811–88) owned most of the land that stretched from Sutherland to Cronulla in the 1860s.
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Gunnamatta Park and Darook Park are located on its eastern foreshore. Tonkin Oval on the northern foreshore features a large cricket oval and is also used for baseball. Cronulla Public School is located nearby.
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Gunnamatta park holds a valuable remnant of bushland canopy and a more limited but equally valuable understorey remnant. An unusual but natural occurrence of Rough-Barked Apple-Gums (
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The area around the bay was subdivided in 1895 and land was offered for sale at 10 pounds per acre. In 1899, the government named the area Gunnamatta, which means
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operate a ferry service from the wharf on Gunnamatta Bay, which provides a link between Cronulla and
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who surveyed here in 1827-28 and by 1840, the main beach was still known as Karranulla.
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Cronulla
Gunnamatta Bay is located in New South Wales
New South Wales
Southern Sydney
New South Wales
34°03′55″S 151°09′04″E / 34.06528°S 151.15111°E / -34.06528; 151.15111
Primary outflows
Port Hacking
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southern Sydney
New South Wales
Australia
Port Hacking
Sutherland Shire
Cronulla
Woolooware
Burraneer

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